NEAIHA Mission Statement

The New England American Industrial Hygiene Association (NEAIHA) serves its members in the following ways:

• Providing accurate and up to date information in the fields of Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Safety, Environmental affairs through meetings, seminars, and training sessions that will be of value to its members;

• Promoting the fields of Industrial Hygiene and occupational health and safety to the public and private sectors;

• Serving as a liaison between local membership and AIHA national.

We are always looking for new members and welcome you to join NEAIHA.  If you are currently a member, we encourage your feedback along with any ideas you may for presentations, speakers, or making us an even better organization.

Embassy Suites (formerly the Doubletree)
550 Winter Street
Waltham, MA 02451
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Please join us for our annual joint meeting with ASSE.  The topics for the meeting are upcoming changes to OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard and Global Harmonized System (GHS). 

Fred Malaby and Joanne Regan, both Industrial Hygienists, Region 1 OSHA Office, will present background information on GHS and the proposed revised HazCom standard.  Rob Gallagher, President of the Safety Association of Rhode Island; Owner/President Gallagher Environmental Consulting Group will review modifications to material safety data sheets.

Click here for registration and meeting details.  Registration is through MemberClicks. 

The meeting is being sponsored by Wilner-Green Associates, Inc.

ABIH Discontinues Reviews of the CM Point Requests for Category 4 Education Events

ABIH has discontinued all CM point request reviews for Category 4 Education events (with one exception as noted below). Instead, individuals will have to calculate their own CM points.  ABIH plans on providing additional information and guidance such as updated CM worksheets, point calculation tools, and guidance documents.  ABIH posted an initial announcement in November and an update in December. 

NEAIHA will assist in easing this transition and ensure that meeting agendas show the number of hours of technical content and calculated CM points. 

Emails and Other Communication

We are doing almost all of our communication electronically these days.  Please let us know if you are not receiving email correspondence of if your contact information changes.  Contact NEAIHA Secretary Debra Gursha at debra.gursha@umb.edu with any changes.

Free Government Sponsored ABIH Credited Courses on the Web

The AIHA Chicago Section has compiled a list of free online courses from FEMA that can be taken for CM points on the web.  See the list with course links at http://chicagoaiha.org/pubs/Information/Free_IH_courses_with_CM_points.doc

Also click here for a list of the more recent additional courses. Thanks go to Mary Corrigan for bringing this to the Executive Committee’s attention and the Chicago section for allowing us link to them.

AIHA List Serve

The AIHA list serve is good source of IH information and a way to keep abreast of issues confronting industrial hygienists around the country and world.

To subscribe to the AIHAIH-list, send a blank (subject line and message) e-mail message to: aihaih-list-subscribe@YahooGroups.com

Industrial Hygiene Video Educational Tool

Not sure if you have seen this film from AIHA but we thought we’d provide you with a link that can be used to educate employees, management, and the public in general on industrial hygiene. Please feel free to spread the word: mms://wm.dvlabs.com/batv/AIHA_StudentVideo.wmv.
 

NEAIHA Website Consultant/Vendor Listing

Are you a consultant or a vendor who would like to get some valuable exposure to the IH and OHS community in the New England region?  If so, please read the attached correspondence and get your company information posted on the Consultant/Vendor section of the NEAIHA website.

This correspondence also includes information if you would like to sponsor a NEAIHA meeting in 2012.

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